Hosted Exchange Comparison

Hosting Exchange in-house is resource-intensive; costly investments in infrastructure and the day-to-day management of Exchange takes time and staff away from your strategic business objectives. Hosted Exchange at Rackspace enables you to more efficiently and reliably manage email. Calculate Exchange server costs to find out how much you can save!

QUANTITY

Exchange Mailboxes

Blackberry ® Users

High Availability

TOTAL

In-house cost per user:

$3,098/Year

Rackspace cost per user:

$144/Year

In-house 2014

In-house 2015

In-house 2016

Rackspace Yearly

Total Cost

$113,636

$59,361

$59,361

$3,600

Hardware costs
Exchange, storage

$7,700

$0

$0

Included

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720Primary Exchange server and license

$4,300

$0

$0

Included

Dell PowerEdge R720Secondary Exchange server and license

$0

$0

$0

Included

Dell PowerEdge R320BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0

$3,400

$0

$0

Included

Dell MD1220Storage array

$0

$0

$0

Included

Backup
Server, tape library, software

$0

$0

$0

Included

Dell™ PowerVault™ LTO-4

$0

$0

$0

Included

Symantec Backup ExecEmail backup software

$0

$0

$0

Included

25 user licenses
Exchange, anti-spam, Outlook®

$4,992

$917

$917

$3,600

(25)
Rackspace Exchange licenses

$0

$0

$0

$3,000

(25)
Outlook 2013 user licenses

$0

$0

$0

$0

(25)
Exchange user CALs

$1,925

$0

$0

$0

(5)
BlackBerry user CALs

$350

$0

$0

$600

(25) Anti-virus/anti-spam protectionHardware and licenses

$2,717

$917

$917

Included

Operating costs
Deployment, administration

$98,444

$58,444

$58,444

Included

Hosting expenses for
1ServerUtilities, bandwidth, rent

$1,000

$1,000

$1,000

Included

Microsoft Software Assurance25% protection

$2,592

$2,592

$2,592

Included

Deployment and installation
consultant: 200 hours at $
/hr

$40,000

$0

$0

Included

Administration costs% FTE at $/yr

$54,852

$54,852

$54,852

Included

We have based our estimates on a broad sample of companies. Actual costs may vary.